Test Automation Contracts in Coventry

Automated Testing
West Midlands > Coventry

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Coventry requiring Test Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Test Automation over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 21 24
Rank change year-on-year +6 +3 +7
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 4 6 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Coventry 4.12% 4.20% 5.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.65% 4.38% 6.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 14
10th Percentile £407 £413 £363
25th Percentile £408 £422 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £441 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £475 £525 £500
90th Percentile £513 £619 £534
West Midlands median daily rate £495 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +16.47% -15.00% +13.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Coventry

Test Automation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Coventry.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 86 137 234
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Coventry 88.66% 95.80% 85.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 111 164
10th Percentile £207 £363 £250
25th Percentile £363 £425 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £625 £575
90th Percentile £640 £688 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £512
% change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £13.57
25th Percentile - - £15.18
Median hourly rate - - £17.86
Median % change year-on-year - - +29.89%
75th Percentile - - £20.54
90th Percentile - - £22.15
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

Job postings citing Test Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Coventry.

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Coventry

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Coventry

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Automation in Coventry.

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Coventry

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Coventry

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Automation in Coventry.

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in Coventry

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Coventry by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) GitHub
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (25.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) Appium
2 1 (25.00%) Serenity BDD
2 1 (25.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Retail
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Test Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Testing Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) RESTful
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) Playwright
2 1 (25.00%) Shiny
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) API Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Microservices
3 2 (50.00%) Performance Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Security Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Test Scripting
3 2 (50.00%) Test Strategy
4 1 (25.00%) Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) BDD
4 1 (25.00%) Coaching
4 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (25.00%) Open Source
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Monitoring
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) SDET
4 1 (25.00%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) R
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) WCAG
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Databricks